Multicast network services advantageously complement multimedia information and communication technologies, as they open up the realm for highly scalable multicustomer application...
Abstract. Dependable performance measurement is a common requirement for all on-line services. The ongoing tendency to outsource not only infrastructure, but also software parts to...
Explosive increase in end-user computing on distributed systems requires that end-users develop application software by themselves. One solution is given as aformula of "adom...
This paper applies Lehman's theory of software evolution to analyse the characteristics of web-based applications and identifies the essences and incidents that cause difficu...
Modern mobile computing paradigms have set new challenges for the development of distributed mobile applications and services. Because of the variability which characterizes the c...